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Google Docs’ voice-typing feature, which lets you “type” and edit text using your voice and a microphone rather than your hands and a keyboard, is getting a couple of key upgrades.  First is that the feature is expanding to “most major browsers.” Currently, Google’s support page notes that it’s “only available in Chrome browsers.” Second is that it is being upgraded to “reduce transcription errors and minimize lost audio during transcription.” As 9to5Google notes, voice… Source link

Now that the fourth quarter is underway, many advertisers are trying to spend all their ad budgets and meet their annual goals. However, a lot of them run into the problem of fraudulent traffic. This is when computer-generated bots click on ads and bring no real results. Threat actors use these bots to replicate the activities of actual customers and fool advertisers into paying for ad traffic. There are a variety of ways to make it seem like there is more traffic to a website than there… Source link

Apple, Google, Microsoft and others have essentially locked users into their web browsers through default settings in their OS platforms, giving the platform makers an unfair advantage over competitors, according to a new report by Firefox maker Mozilla. Mozilla researchers found each platform maker “wants to keep people within its walled garden” by steering mobile and desktop users to Apple Safari, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge. “All five major… Source link

Epic is a private, secure web browser that blocks ads, trackers, fingerprinting, cryptomining, and more. Epic routes all web traffic through a proxy server that automatically blocks trackers and cookies. Using Epic ensures your data is encrypted and hidden from the government, Google, your employer, and hundreds of other data collectors. Source link

Credit: Microsoft In June this year, Microsoft officials announced their plans to redo the Microsoft Store and make it available to both Windows 11 and Windows 10 users starting this fall. Today, September 28, Microsoft execs added a few new details to the new Store rollout plan, including… Source link

You should clear your Google search history both from your Google Account and on various web browsers. You can quickly clear your Google search history from desktop browsers as well as from a mobile device with these steps. By adjusting the settings of your Google account, you can dictate what type of search data Google will maintain in the first place. When you delete your Google search history, you remove all sorts of information that could potentially be used by shady characters…. Source link

Online platforms underpinning the dominance of Apple and Google will come under scrutiny in the U.K. from a regulator with a record of securing changes from Big Tech. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, announced on Tuesday that it had opened a study into the “effective duopoly” that Google GOOGL, -0.84% — owned by Alphabet — as well as Apple AAPL, -0.64% have over the major gateways to the internet. … Source link

Google’s plan to replace third-party cookies is–on one level–really quite brilliant. Google’s entire business depends heavily on the ability to track users in order to identify their interests, and then show them “personalized ads” based on their web activity. The third-party cookie is a huge part of that business, which means it makes sense Google would want to be leading the way on whatever replaces it. Cookies, if you remember, are little snippets of code that websites use to identify… Source link

Google is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to replace third-party cookies. Every major browser that uses the open source Chromium project has declined to use it, and it’s unclear what that will mean for the future of advertising on the web. A couple of weeks ago, Google announced it was beginning to test a new ad technology inside Google Chrome called the Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC. It uses an algorithm to look at your browser history and place you in… Source link

Google has become a major presence in our everyday lives. Whether it is our mobile phones, our smart home devices, search engines or email, it’s everywhere. For many people, that works just fine. The services are reliable, some are free, and they do what we need them to do. … Source link